Review of A.C. Luke, “Roil,” Luna Station Quarterly 61 (2025): 113-119 — Purchase online. Reviewed by Sara L. Uckelman.
As a child, Alsea was marked out as special, taught the songs that only few know how to sing in order to calm the ghosts and put them to rest. Now that she’s an adult, she spends her days waiting for ghosts to cross through the wall, to find them and sing to them.
What kept this story from being just another ordinary/run-of-the-mill ghost-exorcism story was the breathless hints of what lies on the other side of that wall — what, and who, and how did they come to be there, and how did they all die.
It was a curious little story.
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